AVP, Payroll

Who We Are

Revantage, a Blackstone Real Estate portfolio company, is a global provider of corporate services.

With a corporate purpose of 'In Pursuit of Better,' Revantage delivers value-added services and world-class talent for Blackstone Real Estate portfolio companies, spanning diverse asset classes, including residential, logistics, office, hospitality and retail sectors. Headquartered in Chicago, the company's footprint extends across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Rooted in a commitment to collaboration and inclusivity, Revantage goes beyond traditional corporate services and acts as a trusted partner. Across offerings that include finance, technology, human resources and operations, Revantage proactively anticipates stakeholder needs, recruits exceptional talent and enables its business partners to thrive.

What We Value: Our Culture

Our people are our most important asset, enabling Blackstone portfolio companies and investments to scale and thrive. Together, we foster a workplace where everyone can be themselves, enabling them to do their best work.

At Revantage, we have exceptional people who live our values and help us pursue better every day. We offer dynamic and meaningful work, competitive compensation, benefits and flexibility. We listen and take action to ensure our organization evolves to reflect our employees' voices and support an inclusive culture.

Our demonstrated commitment to our people and collaborative culture have earned us numerous awards as a top employer.

Our culture is built on our shared core values and commitment to be:

• Learners - We learn from our challenges and successes
  
• Leaders - We commit to continuous improvement
  
• Enthusiasts - We face challenges with optimism and believe anything is possible
  
• Achievers - We expect high standards for ourselves and enable the success of our teams
  
• Partners - We deliver value and positive impact to our partners
  

Grow your career with us. As a member of our team, you'll gain hands-on experience in the real estate industry and benefit from a supportive environment that fosters personal and professional growth.


Why This Role Is Valuable

The AVP, Payroll Operations is responsible for leading a scalable, globally integrated payroll function delivering consistent, compliant, and high-quality payroll services across Revantage and supported Blackstone Real Estate portfolio companies. This role owns payroll service delivery within a shared-services model, ensuring operational excellence, system integrity, and a seamless employee and stakeholder experience.

How You Add Value

Payroll Operations Leadership

• Own end-to-end payroll service delivery across Revantage and portfolio companies, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency in a multi-entity environment.
  
• Manage payroll operations across multiple legal entities, jurisdictions, and employee populations, balancing standardization with client-specific requirements.
  
• Establish and maintain service delivery standards, SLAs, and performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement.
  
• Ensure payroll readiness across the employee lifecycle, including accurate processing of new hires, terminations, compensation changes, and time and absence inputs.
  
• Partner with Compensation, Benefits, People Operations, Finance, and P&C Business Partners to ensure alignment, data integrity, and a coordinated employee experience.
  

Global Operating Model & Team Leadership

• Lead a globally integrated payroll operating model across onshore and India-based teams, optimizing work allocation, scalability, and cost efficiency.
  
• Build and develop a high-performing payroll organization, defining clear roles, capabilities, and career progression across regions.
  
• Drive knowledge transfer, process standardization, and operational consistency across global teams.
  
• Foster a service-oriented, partner-focused culture that supports complex stakeholder needs across multiple portfolio companies.
  

Workday Payroll & Systems Governance

• Serve as the functional owner of payroll within Workday, ensuring data integrity, process standardization, and system optimization as the system of record.
  
• Drive governance and consistency across Workday payroll, time, and absence configurations to enable scale and reduce manual intervention.
  
• Partner with People Technology to lead system enhancements, integrations, and releases impacting payroll operations.
  
• Oversee issue resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of system performance and user experience.
  

PEO & Vendor Management

• Manage a hybrid payroll delivery model, including oversight of external PEO and payroll vendors.
  
• Ensure clear accountability, accurate data exchange, and alignment across internal and external payroll processes.
  
• Monitor vendor performance, service quality, and cost efficiency, identifying opportunities to optimize the operating model over time.
  

Compliance, Controls & Reporting

• Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, local, and international payroll regulations and tax requirements.
  
• Establish and maintain strong internal controls, audit readiness, and risk mitigation practices across all payroll processes.
  
• Oversee accurate and timely payroll tax filings, regulatory reporting, and year-end processes.
  
• Partner with internal and external auditors to support payroll-related audits and compliance reviews.
  
• Maintain strict confidentiality and adherence to data privacy and security standards.
  

Transformation, Process Optimization & Analytics

• Lead payroll transformation initiatives aligned to global process standardization and automation priorities.
  
• Identify and implement opportunities to reduce manual processing, improve accuracy, and enhance scalability through system and process improvements.
  
• Develop and deliver payroll-related analytics and insights, including workforce cost reporting and payroll variance analysis.
  
• Partner with Finance to ensure alignment between payroll outputs and financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
  

Cross-Functional Integration

• Own the integrity of upstream and downstream payroll inputs and outputs, ensuring alignment across onboarding, compensation, benefits, timekeeping, and financial systems.
  
• Collaborate across People Operations, Benefits, Compensation, and Finance to drive seamless end-to-end processes and data governance.
  
• Act as a consultative subject matter expert within a complex, matrixed stakeholder environment.
  

Key Capabilities & Experience

• Deep expertise in payroll operations within a complex, multi-entity and multi-jurisdictional environment.
  
• Proven experience leading global teams, including offshore delivery models.
  
• Strong knowledge of Workday payroll, time, and absence functionality.
  
• Experience operating within or alongside PEO / co-employment models.
  
• Demonstrated ability to lead transformation, standardization, and process improvement initiatives.
  
• Strong stakeholder management skills with a partner-oriented mindset.
  
• High attention to detail with a focus on risk management, compliance, and controls.
  

What You Bring To The Role

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in human resources or related field
  
• Minimum of 12 years of payroll experience
  
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a management role, identifying and building high-performing teams focused on payroll management
  
• Extensive experience in Workday, ADP & PEO payroll systems and processes
  
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders, including team members, management, vendors, clients and external parties
  
• Experience presenting to C-Suite executives
  
• Highly proficient with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
  
• Self-motivated with the ability to excel and be flexible in fast-paced, ever-changing environments
  
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
  
• Extensive knowledge of applicable state and federal employment, wage & hour, and labor laws
  

Preferred:

• Experience working in shared service environment or with outsourced service providers
  
• CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) Certification
  

Base Compensation Range:
$140,000.00 To $180,000.00 Annually. This represents the presently-anticipated low and high end of the Company's base compensation range for this position. Actual base compensation range may vary based on various factors, including but not limited to location and experience.

Total Direct Compensation :

This job is also eligible for discretionary bonus and incentive compensation on an annual basis.

Benefits: The Company provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

The additional total direct compensation and benefits described above are subject to the terms and conditions of any governing plans, policies, practices, agreements, or other materials or documents as in effect from time to time, including but not limited to terms and conditions regarding eligibility.

Perks for You

• Competitive salary, overall compensation, and 401(k)
  
• Work-life balance offerings include:
  
  • Hybrid Work Policy
    
  • Productivity Hours - weekly meeting-free work time
    
  • Summer Fridays
    
  • Work From Anywhere Month
    
• In-house and external learning & development opportunities
  
• Generous health insurance and wellness benefits
  

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EEO Statement

Revantage is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant, employee, or other covered person based on any legally recognized basis, including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniformed servicemember status, race, color, caste, immigration status, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation or related medical conditions), age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), protected leave status, domestic violence victim status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations, if you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email View email address on click.appcast.io